But when Abigail Washburn picks up her old time banjo and starts to sing, she often delivers her lyrics in Chinese. It turns out she was speaking Chinese before she learned to play the banjo. In her early 20s, Abigail Washburn lived in the city of Ch

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Darfur, the commissioners will visit camps next to region of Sudan where according to aid groups more than one hundred thousand people have died in civil conflict, an estimated two million people has been displaced. This weekend morning edition we a

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....News. I'm Steve/ Inskeep, and I'm Rene/ Montagne. She turned course of the American history by refusing to move from her seat on a bus. Rosa Parks, the woman known as the mother of civil rights movement died at her home last night. She was 92.NPR

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From NPR news, this is All Things Considered, I am Michelle Norris. Italians like to think they made the first noodles. But the Chinese maintain they invented the dish about 2000 years ago. And Arab cooks argue that the honor belongs to them. Well no

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The simplest way to say it is this: I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid. I dreamed of becoming a doctor. My mother was a domestic. Through her work, she observed that successful people spent a lot more time reading than they

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French fries are indeed a guilty pleasure. One medium serving has 350 calories and 16 grams of fat, but there may be a more sinister ingredient lurking in your fries a carcinogen, and now California's Attorney General is suing several fast-food compa

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That's Sexy Back, a song from this week's top-selling album in America, Justin Timberlake's Future Sex/ Love Sounds. But our contributor Jennifer Sharpe says there is new interest and a new market for music thats all but forgotten. Here is Jennifer.

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And it's time again for StoryCorps, we've been hearing from this oral history project as it crisscrosses the country. In New York city, it's gathering interviews with families and friends who lost loved ones at the World Trade Center. StoryCorps w

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 18 September 2009 NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks during a speech at the Concert Noble in Brussels, Belgium, 18 Sep 2009 In another sign of closer ties between western nations and Russia, NATO's new secretary

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By Luis Ramirez Jerusalem 18 September 2009 US Mideast envoy George Mitchell (L) meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in West Bank city of Ramallah, 18 Sep 2009 U.S. special envoy for the Middle East George Mitchell has left Israel and th

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 September 2009 Yemeni NGO workers give newly arrived Somali migrants water on the beach of Hasn Beleid village, 230 kms east of the Red Sea port of Aden, 15 Oct., 2008 The International Organization for Migration and the Un

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 24 September 2009 India has embarked on an ambitious project to give biometric identity cards to its 1.2 billion citizens. If implemented, the project could help millions of poor people gain easier access to public servi

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By David Gollust United Nations 24 September 2009 US President Barack Obama delivers his opening remarks the United Nations Security Council, in New York, 24 Sep 2009 U.S. President Barak Obama chaired a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on nucle

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 24 September 2009 President Barack Obama chairs a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at the United Nations headquarters, in New York, 24 Sep 2009 President Barack Obama chaired a summit level-session of

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By Deborah Block Washington 24 September 2009 What is democracy? That is the question more than 900 people from 95 countries answered by submitting original, short videos to the first Democracy Video Challenge. The competition was sponsored by sever

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By Steve Mort Orlando, Florida 24 September 2009 The news on television and radio sometimes can be dominated by wars and global economic troubles. But one U.S. school student from is trying to change that. Max Jones is making a difference by reporti

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 25 September 2009 Peshawar, North West Frontier in Pakistan The U.N. Humanitarian coordinator in Pakistan says the crisis for hundreds of thousands of displaced people who have returned to homes they fled in the Swat Valley an

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 20 September 2009 This year is the 40th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing, and a time to look ahead to future space exploration, says Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two men to step on the moon. This interior

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 21 September 2009 The head of the World Health Organization urged Asian health chiefs to continue health-care reforms despite the global economic downturn. Margaret Chan says the WHO is working to give poorer nations access

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By Brian Wagner Miami 22 September 2009 A supporter of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya runs during clash with riot police in front of Brazil embassy in Tegucigalpa, 22 Sep 2009 Riot police in Honduras on Tuesday broke up marches by supporte

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